Lorelai smiled.
"For telling me..." Luke continued.
"Oh," Lorelai shifted uncomfortably. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean…"
"Lorelai, stop," Luke murmured, "You have nothing to be sorry about. And you're right; I do need to tell you that I love you more often. Not just when we…" He motioned his hand between them.
Lorelai turned to snuggle closer to him.
"It's just that I felt you were being a little too hasty about the postponement. I mean, I could tell you were really thrown for a loop with the news that you had this kid," Luke groaned in agreement, "and you were upset, and I thought that you'd feel better sooner…"
"Shh," Luke tried to silence her, knowing it was futile.
"No, Luke. See, I thought the daughter thing was like the boat."
"The boat?" Luke chuckled with surprise.
"Yeah. You kept the dark day from me, but then after you had some time, you came around. You came around about the boat. And now, once again, I'm thinking like I would think…"
Luke silenced her with a kiss. "Remember what I told you that night?"
"That I looked hot in that dress? At Miss Patty's?"
Luke chuckled, then seriously added, "You just keep thinking like you'd think."
"Yeah?"
"Yeah. I mean it. Even if it sometimes doesn't seem that way."
"We're getting married," Lorelai stated, stretching into a yawn.
"We're getting married," Luke repeated, "but first, let's get some sleep."
"Hey Luke?"
"Uh huh?"
"Can you go get that robe from the bathroom? I'd hate to have like an earthquake or waves come crashing in, or a home invasion like on that episode of…" Lorelai noted Luke's exasperation, and continued, "And I wouldn't want to run into Logan wearing this…" Lorelai giggled and ran her hand over her emerald green nightie.
"Aw, jeez," Luke sighed, but nevertheless, pulled his sweats back on and went to fetch the plush robe.
"Here OK?" he asked as he smoothed it over the end of the bed.
"Oh my god," Lorelai laughed.
Luke impatiently responded with a mock-irritated "What now?"
"We forgot…" she giggled, "to lock the door!"
"You mean…"
"Yep…Rory could have walked in…"
Luke groaned.
"Well, you know you're going to have to get used to having a kid around sometime…I mean you'll probably be having April over and what if Rory becomes a mom sometime, a very long time from now…there'll be grandkids..."
At that thought, Lorelai lapsed into all-out laughter.
"Sleep!" Luke demanded, moving towards the middle of the bed and wrapping himself around his fiancée.
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It was a beautiful, sunny but cold winter morning as Lorelai sighed again. She smiled to herself as she remembered falling asleep next to Luke, relieved that he still loved her and wanted them to marry. She continued smiling, her eyes still closed as she remembered how well and soundly she'd slept. Come to think of it, she'd slept really well for the first time since all this drama had begun. She only hoped that Luke had slept as well as she had.
Luke groaned, and she felt him move. Hopefully, he'd be out of his funk today.
Luke's arm instinctively came around her, his lips softly kissing her shoulder, as he whispered "Good Morning."
And she just knew. If she could wake up feeling this good after sleeping on the wrong side of the bed, they could, no would, get through all this. Together.